central role in the american military. things have really, really changed. i m not sure these lawmakers may understand that. so to weigh in on these issues in the way they re doing really undermines readiness. that s point one. if this bill weren t to be passed because of this, yes, i mean, it would we ve already got a time now where the u.s. military can t do the procurement it needs to, again is having personnel issues. if funds aren t available at this moment, and the united states, though we re not a direct participant in ukraine or, shall we say, a major indirect participant there, plus we have operations in every other theater of the world, it would be a major probable. problem. it makes it difficult. i ll make a political statement. everyone around this table has been doing this a long time. the idea this becomes another football for american politics, i think, is a sign of how much things have deteriorated. richard, to that point, i mean, it was a major topic of
the whole country has football on the brain right now. we cannot have a conversation without talking football. what president obama wants to punch through in overtime is health reform. 60 years and coming, it s passed the house, it s passed the senate, democrats have huge majorities in both houses in congress. and yet beltway wisdom keeps trying to say it s done. if president obama s speech was not enough to convince you that health care is not dead, consider the far right of the political spectrum is still speechifying on health care too. government takeover of health care is the crown jewel of socialism. michelle bachman still campaigning to kill health reform, which she wouldn t be doing if the bill weren t alive. health reform is alive enough that its opponents are inventing new conspiracy theorys to use against it.
punch through in overtime from the red zone is health reform. 60 years and coming, it s passed the house, it s passed the senate, democrats have huge majorities in both houses in congress. and yet beltway common wisdom keeps trying to say it s done. if president obama s speechifying was not enough to convince you that health care is not dead, consider that the far right of the political spectrum is still speechifying on health care, too. government takeover of health care is the crown jewel of socialism. minnesota republican congresswoman michele bachmann yesterday still campaigning to kill it health reform, which presumably she wouldn t be doing if the bill weren t alive. health reform is alive enough that its opponents are inventing new conspiracy theories to use against it. health reform was once a secret plot to kill old people, then it was a secret plot to hurt veterans, then a secret plot to deny health care to all republicans. if you can t get enough of the
this is what the 5 yard looks like, the republicans are on the offense, in this metaphor, somebody should be wide open, shouldn t they? joining us right now is democratic congresswoman anthony wiener of new york. thanks for your time. nice to see you. my pleasure. i m not going to ask you about japanese secret plots and conspiracies, but i wonder if that is reasonable. it is reasonable to take that as a sign that the right isn t giving up on this stuff, that health reform is alive and kicking. well, i think it s also interesting that when the president went to new hampshire today, he went up there to talk about jobs, went there to talk about jobs, open it up to questions. most were about health care. the american people still want this thing to continue. they re frustrated. the president today, boy, i wish the president sounded that way three months ago rather than worshiping at the altar of ben nelson and olympia snowe as he was up there on stages all across this country sayin
show, chris matthews, does a hardball college tour. right before the midterm elections in 2006, he had senator john mccain on the college tour with him in iowa. they took questions from the crowd. our military needs as many fine young men and women as we can get. yes. why do we have a policy that discriminates on the basis of declared sexual orientation? i listen to people like general colin powell, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and literally every military leader i know, and they testified before congress that they felt that the don t ask, don t tell policy was the most appropriate way to conduct ourselves in the military. i understand the opposition to it, and i ve had these debates and discussions, but the day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, senator, we ought to change the policy, then i think we ought to consider seriously changing,